Stefano Buzzi

16.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
166 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Stefano Buzzi is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Buzzi has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 114 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 31 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stefano Buzzi's work include Wireless Communication Networks Research (75 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (71 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (68 papers). Stefano Buzzi is often cited by papers focused on Wireless Communication Networks Research (75 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (71 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (68 papers). Stefano Buzzi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Stefano Buzzi's co-authors include Jeffrey G. Andrews, Angel Lozano, Anthony C. K. Soong, Jianzhong Charlie Zhang, Wan Choi, Stephen V. Hanly, Carmen D’Andrea, Yonina C. Eldar, Fan Liu and Marco Lops and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Buzzi

147 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

What Will 5G Be?

2014 5.9k citations Stefano Buzzi et al. profile →
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond

2022 1.9k citations Fan Liu, Yonina C. Eldar et al. profile →
Cell-Free Massive MIMO: User-Centric Approach

2017 346 citations Stefano Buzzi, Carmen D’Andrea IEEE Wireless Communications Letters profile →
Foundations of MIMO Radar Detection Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

2022 161 citations Stefano Buzzi, Luca Venturino et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Stefano Buzzi	9.4k	4.5k	3.2k	633	388	166	11.1k
Xiqi Gao	11.3k 1.2×	5.2k 1.1×	3.7k 1.2×	603 1.0×	483 1.2×	538	13.4k
I Chih‐Lin	10.2k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	384 0.6×	291 0.8×	178	11.4k
Jiangzhou Wang	9.7k 1.0×	4.2k 0.9×	4.1k 1.3×	715 1.1×	356 0.9×	497	11.5k
Osvaldo Simeone	8.4k 0.9×	6.7k 1.5×	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 1.9×	314 0.8×	424	10.7k
Mikko Valkama	8.6k 0.9×	2.6k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	540 0.9×	904 2.3×	624	10.0k
Markku Juntti	7.5k 0.8×	4.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	482 0.8×	474 1.2×	578	8.5k
Emil Björnson	16.6k 1.8×	6.6k 1.5×	4.8k 1.5×	389 0.6×	605 1.6×	332	17.7k
Angel Lozano	13.3k 1.4×	7.1k 1.6×	3.2k 1.0×	323 0.5×	351 0.9×	177	14.4k
Preben Mogensen	10.5k 1.1×	6.5k 1.4×	2.2k 0.7×	250 0.4×	482 1.2×	449	11.7k
Vincent K. N. Lau	9.9k 1.1×	6.3k 1.4×	1.5k 0.5×	961 1.5×	251 0.6×	524	11.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Buzzi, Stefano, et al.. (2025). Eliminating Phase Misalignments in Cell-Free Massive MIMO via Differential Transmission. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(9). 2718–2722.

Liu, Pei, Jiwei Hu, Dejin Kong, et al.. (2025). Power Allocation for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Two-Way Relay Systems With Low-Resolution ADCs. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(9). 8181–8197.

Buzzi, Stefano, et al.. (2024). EMF-Aware Power Control for Massive MIMO: Cell-Free Versus Cellular Networks. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

Interdonato, Giovanni, et al.. (2024). Approaching Massive MIMO Performance With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: We Do Not Need Many Antennas. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(6). 4000–4016. 3 indexed citations

Makki, Behrooz, et al.. (2024). Joint User Detection and Localization in Near-Field Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(1). 58–62. 1 indexed citations

Rihan, Mohamed, Alessio Zappone, Stefano Buzzi, Dirk Wübben, & Armin Dekorsy. (2024). Energy efficiency maximization for active RIS-aided integrated sensing and communication. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. 2024(1). 3 indexed citations

Hashemi, Hadi, et al.. (2024). Statistical Characterization of the Delay and Performance Analysis in 3-D Relay Networks. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 5. 7787–7805.

Chepuri, Sundeep Prabhakar, Nir Shlezinger, Fan Liu, et al.. (2023). Integrated Sensing and Communications With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From signal modeling to processing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 40(6). 41–62. 104 indexed citations

Rihan, Mohamed, Alessio Zappone, Stefano Buzzi, Gábor Fodor, & Mérouane Debbah. (2023). Passive Versus Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Challenges and Opportunities. IEEE Network. 38(3). 218–226. 23 indexed citations

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Interdonato, Giovanni, et al.. (2023). On the Coexistence of eMBB and URLLC in Multi-Cell Massive MIMO. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 4. 1040–1059. 17 indexed citations

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Interdonato, Giovanni & Stefano Buzzi. (2023). Joint Optimization of Uplink Power and Computational Resources in Mobile Edge Computing-Enabled Cell-Free Massive MIMO. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 72(3). 1804–1820. 16 indexed citations

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Rihan, Mohamed, Alessio Zappone, & Stefano Buzzi. (2023). Robust RIS-Assisted MIMO Communication-Radar Coexistence: Joint Beamforming and Waveform Design. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 71(11). 6647–6661. 15 indexed citations

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Elwekeil, Mohamed, Alessio Zappone, & Stefano Buzzi. (2022). Power Control in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks for UAVs URLLC Under the Finite Blocklength Regime. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 71(2). 1126–1140. 31 indexed citations

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Baracca, Paolo, et al.. (2021). Cell-Free and User-Centric Massive MIMO Architectures for Reliable Communications in Indoor Factory Environments. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 2. 1390–1404. 21 indexed citations

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Buzzi, Stefano, Carmen D’Andrea, Alessio Zappone, et al.. (2021). RIS Configuration, Beamformer Design, and Power Control in Single-Cell and Multi-Cell Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. 7(2). 398–411. 22 indexed citations

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Buzzi, Stefano & Carmen D’Andrea. (2017). User-Centric Communications versus Cell-free Massive MIMO for 5G Cellular Networks. International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas. 1–6. 19 indexed citations

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Buzzi, Stefano & Carmen D’Andrea. (2016). A Clustered Statistical MIMO Millimeter Wave Channel Model.. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Buzzi, Stefano, Carmen D’Andrea, Tommaso Foggi, Alessandro Ugolini, & Giulio Colavolpe. (2016). Spectral Efficiency of MIMO Millimeter-Wave Links with Single-Carrier Modulation for 5G Networks. International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Venturino, Luca, Chiara Risi, Alessio Zappone, & Stefano Buzzi. (2013). Green joint user scheduling and power control in downlink multi-cell OFDMA networks. Future Network & Mobile Summit. 1–10. 7 indexed citations

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Buzzi, Stefano. (2010). Joint waveform adaptation and power control in multi-cell wireless data networks: A game-theoretic approach. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 222–226. 2 indexed citations

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